idiotic

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Instead of a half-idiotic, and wholly unattractive, specimen of girlhood, a very charming little personality stood before them.

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  1. adjective Showing foolishness or stupidity.
  2. adjective Exhibiting idiocy.

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  • Instead of a half-idiotic, and wholly unattractive, specimen of girlhood, a very charming little personality stood before them. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • Aunt Marcia also took the trouble to explain, quite confidentially, to some seven hundred and ninety-three people, just why the engagement had been broken off: and these explanations were more creditable to Mrs. Dumby's imagination than to me And I remembered, then, that the last request my mother made of me was to keep out of the newspapers--"except, of course, the social items 20 He Dines Out, Impeded by Superstitions Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly. —  The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
  • "There's a witness Only a little idiotic-looking girl She's not idiotic, and if you touch me the compact's broken Very well, my time will come. —  He Fell in Love with His Wife
  • That would be idiotic, and the count is a sensible man. —  The Widow Lerouge
  • It seems to me that this is illogical -- idiotic, in fact. —  Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)
 

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  1. = French idiotique = Spanish idiótico = Portuguese Italian idiotico, idiotic, from Late Latin idioticus, uneducated, ignorant, from Greek ἰδιωτικός, private, unprofessional, unskilful, rude, from ἰδιώτης, a private person: see idiot and -ic.
 

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